Letter from Ivan from his cell. He has been incarcerated for a few days on remand at the Villepinte prison. Here is his first letter…
15 VI 2022
My name is Ivan, I am an anarchist.
I was arrested by the SDAT1 on Saturday, June 11, around 3:30 am, not far from my home, while I was returning home.
I am charged with six vehicle fires that took place in Paris and Montreuil between January and June, often claimed in solidarity with anarchist prisoners (in the last one, an embassy car was set on fire the night I was arrested, in the 17th district).
For months, the cops set up surveillance tails, wiretaps, installed a camera in the entrance of my building, intercepted my mail (including letters from imprisoned comrades) and watched my bank account.
Another person (we only know each other by sight, but I hold him in high esteem) has been followed, listened to, etc., but not implicated. Courage, my old friend!
The SDAT investigation began in February 2022 on the orders of the prosecutor Laure-Anne Boulanger, from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office.
They also pulled another investigation out of the drawers, closed, which had been conducted by other cops, on about fifty vehicle arsons, claimed by anarchists, in Paris and its surroundings, between June 2017 and 2021. The SDAT “joined” the two investigations, but the investigating judge (Stéphanie Lahaye of the Bobigny court) retained only the last six actions. For the others, I am a “counseling witness”.
In addition to “destruction by dangerous means”, there are also charges of endangering the lives of others, refusal of the identification (photos, DNA, fingerprints, they did not take them from me by force, despite threats), refusal to give the encryption passwords of my computers and the passwords of my phones.
At the moment, I am in pre-trial detention at the Villepinte prison. I’m in good shape, I’m doing well even if I miss my close ones a lot.
It’s normal, it’s prison, and you have to take it into account when you are an enemy of this society.
The return from the yard is the hardest moment here. It’s when the door closes until the next day. But I turn towards the window and look out. Out there, somewhere, comrades are still fighting. Nothing is over.
As soon as I get more information about this case, I’ll write more (I don’t have much else to do!).
My thoughts are with the anarchists in prison, all over the world: with Damien (in Draguignan), with Alfredo, with Anna, with Juan, with Toby, with Giannis Michailidis on hunger strike… and with all of you, out there!
Solidarity means attack!
Long live anarchy!
IVAN
1Anti-Terrorist Subdivision of the Central division of the Judicial Police ↵
To write to him:
Ivan has left his name and prison number so that we can write him in solidarity:
Ivan Alocco
n°46355 MA de Villepinte
Avenue Vauban
93420 Villepinte, France
via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!